{"id":333733,"date":"2022-06-08T20:17:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T14:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=333733"},"modified":"2022-06-08T20:25:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T14:55:07","slug":"ind-vs-sa-rishabh-pant-kl-rahul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/sports-news\/breaking-newscast-cricket\/ind-vs-sa-rishabh-pant-kl-rahul\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishabh Pant to lead team India after KL Rahul ruled out of South Africa T20I series, Hardik Pandya names as vice captain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wicket-keeper batter Rishabh Pant, who was named as KL Rahul&#8217;s deputy for the South Africa series, will now lead the team India in his absence. All-rounder Hardik Pandya, who recently led debutants Gujarat Titans to the IPL 2022 title, will be the vice-captain in the series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The development has been confirmed by the BCCI after designated captain KL Rahul and spinner Kuldeep Yadav have been ruled out of the five-match T20I series against South Africa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEWS \ud83d\udea8- KL Rahul and Kuldeep Yadav ruled out of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvSA<\/a> series owing to injury.<br><br>The All-India Senior Selection Committee has named wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant as Captain and Hardik Pandya as vice-captain for the home series against South Africa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paytm?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Paytm<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/INDvSA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#INDvSA<\/a><\/p>&mdash; BCCI (@BCCI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BCCI\/status\/1534518961668116482?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 8, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>India\u2019s stand-in skipper KL Rahul has been ruled out of South Africa T20Is with a groin injury while Kuldeep was hit in his right hand while batting in the nets at Delhi&#8217;s Arun Jaitely, where the first game will be played on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rahul was named as the captain of the side in the absence of the regular captain Rohit Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KL Rahul, who was leading Punjab Kings in IPL and stood second in the race of purple cap holder after Joss Butler, has been ruled from the series due to his an injury while Kuldeep Yadav, who only recently made his international comeback after falling out of favour, has met with a similar fate. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both Rahul and Kuldeep have now on boarded for the National Cricket Academy in Bangalore where the medical team will assess them and decide on the future course of treatment. It has been confirmed further that no replacements will be named, the board confirmed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the absence of senior players like Virat Kohli, Rohit Sharma, Jasprit Bumrah, Kuldeep Yadav and KL Rahul, Pant will be leading a bunch of new faces, for whom, the series will be a golden opportunity to impress the selectors ahead to the T20 World Cup in Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amid growing number of absentees, the hosts will rely on the IPL talent. However, all eyes are on young pacers Umran Malik and Arshdeep Singh who are debuting for team India. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BCCI has confirmed the development after the designated captain KL Rahul and spinner Kuldeep Yadav have been ruled out of the five-match T20I series against South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":327235,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"#RishabhPant to lead team India after #KLRahul ruled out of South Africa T20I series, #HardikPandya names as vice captain\n#INDvsSA","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1525,125714],"tags":[30253,132472,3368,87512,3309],"yst_prominent_words":[63431,5024,7507,5241,32978,86305,16071,46406,16068,21622,45719,5956,86719,37421,5107,23232,14183,20964,88073,4079],"ppma_author":[140550],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/d2r2ijn7njrktv.cloudfront.net\/apnlive\/uploads\/2022\/05\/23154958\/KLRAHULANDPANT.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":140550,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"mohammad-javed","display_name":"Javed","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c07f6f652d23f05d19bedb5b9dd285e9?s=96&r=g"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333733"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=333733"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=333733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- html is corrupted -->